After a 3 month hiatus, the DailyStocks Monthly Newsletter is back with a new format!

We are changing our overall format because we are listening to our readers and visitors.

Our feedback from our visitors told us the following 3 things:

1. Our visitor is smarter than the average investor.

2. Our visitor does not fall for the media hype, so-called experts, and stock predictions.

3. Our visitor is only interested in proven, tested strategies for beating the stock market. One such strategy, proven by academic research and practitioners, is to focus on stocks with insider buying.

As a result, we are changing our editorial focus to cover stocks with insider buying.

As the legendary investor Peter Lynch said, insiders sell stocks for many reasons but insiders buy stocks for one reason: they think the stock will go up. At DailyStocks, , except for when they are promoting the stock for a pending fund raising excercise, we also believe that insiders buy stock because they think the stock is going up.

Academic research has proven time and time again that stocks with insider buying tend to beat the average market. Furthermore, R&D intensive companies with insider buying tend to beat the market even more.

There are many sites that write about insider buying but DailyStocks.com is the only one that does the following three things:

1. We focus only on stocks with insider buying. Nothing else. No distractions.

2. We only focus on stocks with insider buying by officers. We do not include directors, affiliated companies, affiliated funds, 10% institutional owners.

3. We also report on the compensation of the officers who are buying the stocks. By reading about the officer’s compensation, our readers can decide as to how much aligned the officer is with the shareholders.

Our daily articles give you information about a stock that an officer is buying shares in, for you to do further research.

Our monthly newsletter format will discuss stocks covered in our daily articles. We will maintain a table of stocks that have insider buying by officers and have been profiled in our site.

Without further ado, this is March 2014′s newsletter.

Three biotech stocks have risen 172%, 149%, 148% since the date the CEOs bought shares in their own companies. These are: Retrophin, Auspex, La Jolla Pharmaceuticals.

Retrophin rose sharply after it announced it is buying Manchester Pharmaceuticals. With the deal, Retrophin is buying 2 drugs. One is a synthetic form of a natural bile acid called chenodeoxycholic acid, or CDCA. That drug, sold under the name Chenodal, is approved for patients suffering from gallstones. Manchester also has a second product, mecamylamine HCl (Vecamyl), which is approved to treat certain cases of hypertension and is sometimes prescribed off-label as a treatment for rage attributed to autism.

La Jolla Pharmaceuticals has risen sharply on the news that the clinical trial for its galectin inhibitor — used to treat chronic kidney disease — achieved positive trial results.

Auspex had an IPO in the first quarter and the biotech stock has run up sharply since then. Its principal product, SD-809, is an improved version of an existing drug for Huntington’s disease to treat abnormal involuntary movements such as chorea associated with the disease.

The stocks that resulted in the highest gains for the month of February are Retrophin, Auspex, and Integrated Device Technology with gains of 67%, 58%, and 22% respectively.

Integrated Device Technology announced a very strong quarter in February, announced several products, and announced the resignation of Peter Feld from the board of directors.

The stocks that lost the most in price for the month of February are Copytele (-25%), DigitalGlobe (-19%) and Gordman’s (-12%) respectively.

Copytele, an intellectual property portfolio company, has an arbitration hearing set between its lawsuit agains AU Optronics. CopyTele has also entered into a License and Settlement Agreement With PGT Industries.

DigitalGlobe was in the news as it is involved in the crowdsourcing search for the Malaysian Jet that disappeared last week.

Gordman’s, an apparel and footwear retailer, is touching 3 year lows after announcing results.

Till next month,

Warren Paige
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Table of Stocks that had Insider Buying and were Profiled in DailyStocks.com’s Daily Articles

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All stories in DailyStocks.com are for informational purposes only. This is NOT a stock recommendation. This DailyStocks.com story is a daily light analysis featuring a stock with insider buying. With some caveats, insiders purchase a stock because they think the stock is going up. There are other factors to consider such as size of the transaction relative to their compensation and net worth. Sometimes, insiders might be propping a stock price up for future financing. Sometimes, the amount of insider buying are misread or misreported. Each month, DailyStocks releases a a summary of the stocks with insider buying. Sign up for the free monthly newsletter at DailyStocks.com .
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All stories in DailyStocks.com are for informational purposes only. This is NOT a stock recommendation. This DailyStocks.com story is a daily light analysis featuring a stock with insider buying. With some caveats, insiders purchase a stock because they think the stock is going up. There are other factors to consider such as size of the transaction relative to their compensation and net worth. Sometimes, insiders might be propping a stock price up for future financing. Sometimes, the amount of insider buying are misread or misreported. Each month, DailyStocks releases a a summary of the stocks with insider buying. Sign up for the free monthly newsletter at DailyStocks.com .
About Dailystocks.com: DailyStocks.com is the place where you can find stories about stocks with insider buying, where you can educate yourself about stock market investing, and where you can perform the stock search engine analysis – you enter a stock symbol, and you get a resulting page of stock ticker indexed links so that you do not have to type the stock symbol each time.